378   THE HOUSE OF FULFILMENT
be long." But the note in his voice was new.
The fight even then was begun.
  "Yes," she told him, grave eyes meeting
grave eyes, for young love is solemn. Then
he drew her to him and sight and sound
went out, and the solid round earth was
spurned. And yet they were but two of the
long, unending line, mounting thus to God
and His heaven, for it is for this we are some
into the world.
  Suddenly Alexina slipped her hands from
his and fled.
  Molly was on the porch with Mr. Jonas.
A toy harness from the cotillion favors jan-
gled on her dress. She had sunk laughing
on a bench to get breath.
  "Yes," she told Mr. Jonas, " we go in the
morning, to Cannes Brulee."
  Alexina was coming up on the porch
and to Molly. Straight she slipped to her